Decolonizing Methodologies

Research on indigenous elders: from positivistic to decolonizing methodologies.

Although indigenous peoples have lower life expectancies than the social majority populations in their countries, increasing numbers of indigenous people are living into old age. Research on indigenous elders is informed by a number of research traditions. Researchers have mined existing data sets to compare characteristics of indigenous populations with non-indigenous groups, and these finding...

Decolonizing Methodologies and Indigenous Knowledge: The Role of Culture, Place and Personal Experience in Professional Development

This study reports findings from a 10-day professional development institute on curricular trends involving 19 secondary mathematics and science teachers and administrators from Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Korea, Philippines, the United States, and People’s Republic of China. Participants explored the roles of culture, place, and personal experience in science education through writin...

Decolonizing Bioethics in Africa

The global spread of bioethics from its North-American and European provenance to non-Western societies is currently raising some concerns. Part of the concern has to do with whether or not the exportation of bioethics in its full Western sense to developing non-Western states is an instance of ethical imperialism or bioethical neocolonialism. This paper attempts an exploration of this debate i...

Decolonizing German theory: an introduction

This special issue is concerned with German theory, which is to say, theory generated in German cultural and linguistic spaces, in the territories claimed by the various German states over time, and among German-speaking emigrants and refugees. ‘Theory’ is defined here to encompass the space shared by philosophy, social theory, and cultural theory*/the theory-space that is most relevant for the...

Toward Decolonizing African Philosophy and Religion